DiLos is the name used by Mexican artist Delia Perez Salinas Tijerina. Her 2025 installation in the Proxy Gallery consists of 9 “magic boxes” connected to electricity that each contains a holographic GIF video. On each image is seen milk poured down from the top. Some of the images are recognizable- three anchor globes (sun, moon, and star). Other images are a GPT umbrella, a cherry with nine stalks, a golden knot from a cherry stalk, a cobra leopard, a 9 hole pierced cactus, Lamborghini Notre Dame.

In order to engage ideas of reality and unreality, and the distortions within them, the artist combined ideas of Vedic practice (rituals of cleansing with milk) with commands to Artificial Intelligence, thus producing unlikely pairings, with the sun, moon and stars used as anchors to signify the pure essence of the world.

By a process of successive abstractions, the artist is offering a fascinating and magnetic experience that approaches the confrontation with a magic that is simultaneously real. We try to decode what we are seeing, while at the same time we are irresistibly drawn to it. We experience seduction even before we can rationalize the attraction. We cannot know whether our attraction is to the objects depicted or to the technology itself; the movement in the gifs is making the objects animated, alive, almost human, and isn’t that the promise of AI? The creation of a lively intelligence without a body?

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